About Tristan

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I am a writer, educator, digital strategist, and equity-inclusion facilitator. I specialize in content marketing strategies for justice-focused leaders and queer-trans Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB) training and consulting. My intention is to share this work with an anti-oppression and intersectional lens.

I’m honored to have worked with and supported organizations and clients such as Portland Public Schools, HubSpot, Stanford University’s YogaX program, Northwest Harvest, Accessible Yoga School, Breathe for Change, Williston Northampton School, and so many more.

I was named one of Yoga Journal’s 2021 Game Changers, and I spent several years serving on the Board of Directors at Accessible Yoga before the non-profit dissolved in early 2024.

As a longtime student of social movements and social justice, I believe that marketing can center relationship over transaction, that we can infuse our business growth strategies with our activism, and that we each have a role to play in disrupting oppression—in our marketing and beyond.

Degrees & Certifications

BA Politics & Latin American Studies - UC Santa Cruz, 2005

MA Latin American Studies, focus on Human Rights - University of New Mexico, 2012

200hr Yoga & Social Justice Teacher Training - Portland, OR, 2015

200hr Yoga & Ayurveda Teacher Training - Portland, OR, 2015

18hr Trauma-informed, Brain-sensitive Yoga Teacher training - Portland, OR, 2016

20hr Training-of-Trainers with Dr. Eli Green & Eliza Davison at the Transgender Training Institute, 2021

300hr Skill in Action Yoga Teacher Training with Michelle C. Johnson - completed August 2023

Immersions & Trainings

  • Yoga Philosophy Immersion with Diana Hulet at The People’s Yoga, 2016

  • Yoga Anatomy & Yoga Sequencing Immersions with Todd Jackson, 2017

  • Embodying Ethics with Michael Stone, 2017

  • Skill in Action: Yoga & Social Justice Weekend with Michelle C. Johnson, 2018

  • Introduction to Restorative Justice with Resolutions Northwest, 2020

  • Race-equity & Yoga with Kenya Budd at the Bhakti Movement Center, 2020

  • Race & Resilience Year-long Leadership Training with Michelle C. Johnson & Kerri Kelly, 2020

  • Remembering, Responsibility, Reverence, & Reconciliation Immersion with Michelle C. Johnson, Vivette Jeffries-Logan, & Kerri Kelly, 2020

  • Digital Allyship 101 & 102 with Monica Cadena, 2020

  • Digital Campaigns for Social Change with Monica Cadena, 2020

  • Digital Allyship Intensive with Monica Cadena, 2020

  • Artful Facilitation Grounded in Racial Equity with Resolutions Northwest, 2020

  • Race, Gender, & Bias with Rebby Kern, 2020

  • Decolonizing Gender with Rebby Kern, 2020

  • Gender Inclusion in Feminist Language with Maybe Burke & the Transgender Training Institute, 2021

  • Group supervision with Dr. Eli Green at the Transgender Training Institute, 2022

  • Decolonized Approaches to Facilitation with king yaa & Eri Guajardo Johnson, 2022

  • Transformative Justice 101 with Mia Mingus, 2023

    Ongoing mentorship with Michelle Cassandra Johnson

My professional (and personal) ethic is rooted in anti-racist and anti-patriarchal praxis. In recognition of the reality of systemic oppression, marginalization, anti-Black racism, and settler colonialism, I offer a discounted rate for BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.